Stop whining- you have a dry top AND a guitar.

Along with our usual stack of customer service queries this morning we received this rather understated note from Alan Chestnutt:

Hi Jon, I was hoping you guys could help me out here. You may have heard on the news about the F5 tornado that ripped through Tuscaloosa, AL. My home was completely destroyed but I happened to find my brand new dry top amongst the debris. Amazingly it was still intact, just covered in mud. But upon examining I found a quarter-sized hole ripped in one of the arms.
Do you think I could mail this in to you guys and patch up the sleeve for me? It would be greatly appreciated if you could offer any help!

We had to ask for more details, and Alan was nice enough to write back:

Yes, most thankfully several of my friends that were hit, are all alive and well. I know of no one personally who has died, but there are several hundred in the area who were not so lucky. On a good note, our community and several others are coming together and offering a lot of help. Even Charlie Sheen of all people came and offered 1 million to the city, and is going to get a celebrity fund raiser going to help rebuild.The creek near my house ironically named Hurricane Creek, is forever changed. I took a picture over the bridge of the take-out and it is full of trees and refridgerators, cars, and other strainers.

And sure I don’t mind at all of you posting pictures to your website. I can attach a few others as well.

One of these is of the creek near my house (the tornado reached all the way down into the bottom of the valley), and the other is a view of the lot where my house used be from where it currently sits destroyed on top of the railroad tracks.

Thanks again, Alan, and thank goodness you’re safe and sound. For those of you moved to take action- here’s the link to make a quick donation to the Red Cross.